Devon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You both seem to be arguing about what constitutes stable.
Yep. For emerge, all that matters is the tree. Nothing else is important - actually, nothing else exists, as overlays also become part of the tree, sort of. > And there are 2 > different definitions: stable as defined by the upstream source and stable > as defined in portage. Yep. The latter is all that matters for emerge. > Not appreciating the distinction, Maxim was asking why he's not getting the > latest stable (expecting the "upstream stable"). We don't know what Maxim expected. Hence my question. > Alexander's comments reflect the "portage stable", Yes. > but don't take in to > account that portage does not always keep up. As it doesn't matter to what emerge offers. > In fact, in this case it's > languished rather badly. Yes. > His issue is 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 should have been stable by now. I agree with this. > > So, while Alexander is technically correct, (emerge is doing exactly what it > should) Yep. I asked, why maxim expected a different result. > this not a good thing, because portage is still delivering older, > buggy code. Yep. > I would suggest Darren look through the develoiper list ( > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml) for developers > handling media-sound. Add them to the cc list on the 0.9.2 ebuild and add a > comment asking that it be marked stable. And ask for the 0.9.3 to be added > as ~x86 Very good suggestion! Alexander Skwar -- * BenC wonders why he has upgraded to 3.3.5-1 before teh X maintainer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
